Month: June 2010

“Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue.” -Proverb- journal entry: I love the Phoenix Zoo. Everything seems to be in a natural state . . . except this “ham”. She is a character who loves to

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” -Mark Twain- journal entry: It is delightful to watch my children as parents. They are patient and thoughtful. They worry . . . but

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” -Henry David Thoreau- journal entry: Ahhhhhh . . . the smells. I love smells. Good smells that is. Here is a aromatic, useful,

“To a small child, the perfect grandpa is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but is absolutely terrified of the word ‘BOO’.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: It isn’t far to Tibblefork from where we live. Perfect for an easy

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people to see without a camera.” -Dorthea Lange- journal entry: There is rarely anything natural about an expression on the face which knows it is being followed. That is why I love my

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house burns down then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is just an inconvenience.” -Robert Fulghum- journal entry: Well. That is good advice. It still doesn’t help

“You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson- journal entry: George looks happy now, but he wasn’t a few minutes ago. While he liked the homemade pizza, he kept reaching for it until his

“A photograph is a secret about a secret.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: Keepsake photographs happen in the most unexpected moments. Glancing over as Keeley waited patiently for her cousin Clara to put on her shoes, I saw the sun going

“As much as I love to converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scenes, for the warbling of birds and the prattle of my children.” -John Adams-

“Sometimes I imagined as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” -Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland- journal entry: When our children were little, Grandpa, then Dad, made a “paper mache”. Little hands could drive little cars and play with